Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia

by Karida L. Brown

Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469647036
• ISBN13: 9781469647036
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"